III. 3. IX. THE GUHAYNA GROUP 281 the Masruh, or "roaming tribes." The Banu Salim, again, have eight subdivisions, viz.: 1. Ahamidah (Ahmadi)....It is said to contain about 3500 men. Its principal sub-clan is the Hadari.

2. Hawazim (Hazimi), the rival tribe, 3000 in number: it is again divided into Muzayni and Zahiri.

6. Mahamid (Mahmadi), 8000.

7. Rahalah (Rihayh), 1000.

8. Timam (Tamimi). The mere occurrence of the name "Hawazim," or Hawazma {sing. Hazmi), might be a mere coincidence, but when we find in conjunction with it Ahamda and Mahamid, both names of Bakkara or semi-BAKKARA tribes, and "Rahalah," which is evidently the same as Rowahla (sing. Rahli), one of the subtribes of the Kababish (among whom, as we shall see, the 'Atawia also are ancestrally connected with the Bakkara), and reahze that AhAMDa, Mahamid, Hawazma and Rowahla are all important groups in Kordofan, and that Kababish and Bakkara alike claim descent from 'Abdulla el Guhani, not to mention the obvious similarity, if not the identity, between the names of Burton's "Banu Salim" and the Beni Selim Bakkara of the White Nile, there seems small room for doubt that the Bakkara tribes of the Sudan contain numerous elements that are also common to the Beni Harb of the Hegaz. The latter are an Isma'ilitic tribe, originally a section of Hawazin, who, again, are a branch of Kays 'Aylan. In proof that some of them did come to Egypt one may quote Sir J, G. Wilkinson. In his list of Arab tribes east of the Nile the names of "Billee" (Beli), "Gehaynee" (Guhayna) and "Harb" occur in close proximity.

The fact that the Prophet once said " Of a truth among the Arabs the worst names are the Beni Kelb and the Beni Harb " may explain The singular of Ahamda in the Sudan is Hammadi and not Ahmadi.

The singular of Mahamid in the Sudan is Mahmudi and not Mahmadi.

Makrizi (ap. Quatremere, II, iqi) mentions Awlad Hazm as a section of the Sinbis branch of Tai in Egypt, and it is conceivable that the original Hawazma, or Hawazim, were a branch of Tai, the tribe with which the Messiria are also said to be connected. See Wiistenfeld, Tab. 6, where "Hizmir" refers to the same person as does Quatremere's better reading of "Hazm" (i.e. jij.- for j,j.), and where "el Maschr" (i.e. jiL\, "el Mashr" (Mishir?)), the son of Tha'aliba and greatgreat-grandson of Nebhan, seems to correspond to " Messir " the traditional ancestor of the Messfria, who appears also in the nisbas as son of Tha'aliba and great-greatgrandson of "Nebhan, a section of Tai" (D i, vii). Possibly, then, while certain Beni Tai detached themselves from the main tribe to wander southwards into the Sudan, others joined the Guhayna or the Harb; or possibly the opposite occurred and the Hawazma broke away from their parent stem to join the Ti • almost any similar permutation is indeed within the bounds of possibility.

* Wiistenfeld, D and F. Modern Egypt..., ii, 380.

* See Burton, Pilgrimage..., l, 247.